In 1973, the designated hitter ( DH ) rule was adopted by the American League, while in the National League pitchers still bat for themselves to this day.

while the HP 3000 business computer ( 1973 ) could have 64K, 96K, or 128K bytes of memory.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.

By 1973 the PAIGC controlled most of the interior of the country, while the coastal and estuary towns, including the main populational and economic centres remained under Portuguese control.

On July 14, 1973, the legendary White was killed by a drunk driver while loading equipment in his car for a concert with the New Kentucky Colonels.

The $ 10, 000 Pyramid and its numerous higher-stakes derivatives also debuted in 1973, while the 1970s also saw the return of formerly disgraced producer and host Jack Barry, who debuted The Joker's Wild and a clean version of the previously rigged Tic-Tac-Dough in the 1970s.

Amid charges of corruption and malfeasance against the royal family and poor economic conditions created by the severe 1971 – 72 drought, former Prime Minister Mohammad Sardar Daoud Khan seized power in a non-violent coup on July 17, 1973, while Zahir Shah was receiving treatment for eye problems and therapy for lumbago in Italy.

Hunt the Wumpus was originally written by Gregory Yob in BASIC while attending the Dartmouth campus of the University of Massachusetts in 1972 or 1973.

* 1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.

Taito released a four-way joystick as part of their arcade racing video game Astro Race in 1973, while their 1975 run and gun multi-directional shooter game Western Gun introduced dual-stick controls with one eight-way joystick for movement and the other for changing the shooting direction.

One of Friedman's most infamous concerts was a 1973 performance in Buffalo, New York ; upon performing " Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed " ( a song that lampoons feminism ), a group of what Friedman described as " cranked-up lesbians " entered into a fight with the band and forced the concert to end early while Friedman and the band were escorted off stage.

* The HP 21MX real-time computer ( 1974 ) denoted 196, 608 ( which is 192 × 1024 ) as " 196K ", while the HP 3000 business computer ( 1973 ) denoted 131, 072 ( which is 128 × 1024 ) as " 128K ".

After World War II, while many European nations were granting independence to their colonies, Portugal's Estado Novo regime headed by António de Oliveira Salazar issued a decree officially renaming Mozambique and other Portuguese possessions as overseas provinces of the mother country, and emigration to the colonies soared ( Mozambique's ethnic Portuguese resident population was about 300, 000 in 1973, which excludes the Portuguese military sent from the mainland and mulatto population ).

* 1973 – HNS Velos ( D-16 ), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

Monica Samille Lewinsky ( born July 23, 1973 ) is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an " improper relationship " while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.

* R v Quick & Paddison 1973 3 AER 397 a diabetic committed an assault while in a state of hypoglycaemia caused by the insulin he had taken, the alcohol he had consumed, and not eating properly.

Tarkenton would go on to lead the Vikings to three Super Bowls and earn a place in the Hall of Fame, while the Giants suffered through one of the worst stretches in their history, winning only 23 games from 1973 – 79.

Executive Order 12464, dated February 23, 1984, authorized award of the Purple Heart as a result of terrorist attacks or while serving as part of a peacekeeping force subsequent to March 28, 1973.

After 28 March 1973, as a result of military operations while serving outside the territory of the United States as part of a peacekeeping force.

Four of his films, Major Dundee ( 1965 ), The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ), were filmed entirely on location within Mexico, while The Getaway ( 1972 ) concludes with a couple escaping to freedom there.

DeFreeze escaped from the Soledad State Prison on March 5, 1973 simply by walking away while on work duty in a boiler room located outside the perimeter fence.

Also, many Dolphin players wore a slightly different helmet decal than the rest ... starting with the final regular season game of the 1973 season ( and continuing throughout the playoffs ) many players, mostly linemen, wore the decal that the team would adopt in 1974 ( with the mascot dolphin leaping through the sun ), while others wore helmets with the 1969-1973 decal ( with the mascot dolphin halfway through the sun ).

In 1973, Mohammed Daoud Khan was brought to power in a coup d ' état against the Afghan King and the Republic of Afghanistan was established.

In July 1973, Zahir Shah was ousted in a nonviolent coup and Kabul became the capital of a republic under Mohammed Daoud Khan, the new President.

From Amanullah until the reign of Mohammed Zahir Shah ( 1933 – 1973 ) and Mohammed Daoud Khan ( 1973 – 1978 ) the Jirga was recognized as a common meeting of regional Pashtun leaders.

Mohammed Zahir Shah ( 15 October 1914 – 23 July 2007 ) was the last King ( Padishah ) of Afghanistan, reigning for four decades, from 1933 until he was ousted by a coup in 1973.

He overthrew the monarchy of his first cousin Mohammed Zahir Shah and declared himself as the first President of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in 1978 as a result of the Saur Revolution led by the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ).

King Mohammed Zahir Shah ascended to the throne and reigned from 1933 to 1973.

* Mohammed Daoud Khan ( 1909 – 1978 ), first President of Afghanistan, from 1973, until his assassination in 1978

The monarchy of Afghanistan was abolished in 1973 after a coup d ' état overthrew King Mohammed Zahir Shah.

In 1973 the PDPA assisted Mohammed Daoud Khan to seize power from Zahir Shah in a nearly bloodless military coup.

His sons Mohammed and Nasreddine Chaabane carried on his tradition after his death in 1973.

In 1973, Podgorny visited Finland and Mohammed Daoud Khan's Afghanistan.

Wail Mohammed al-Shehri (, ; also transliterated as Alshehri ) ( July 31, 1973 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11, which was hijacked and flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks.

The title went dormant after his assassination in 1842 until 1926 when Amanullah Khan resurrected it ( official from 1937 ) and was finally laid to rest with the abdication of Mohammed Zahir Shah in 1973 following a coup ; at other times the Afghan monarchy used the style Emir ( Amir al-Momenin ) or Malik (" King ").

Nashir was jailed after Prince Mohammed Daoud Khan's coup in 1973 because of a personal feud.

As a student in the Mohammed V University of Rabat, he gravitated towards Sahrawi nationalism, and became one of the founding members of the Polisario Front, a Sahrawi independence movement in Western Sahara with strong Arab socialist ideas which launched a few attacks against Spanish colonialism in the Spanish Sahara in 1973, but that is more notable for fighting against Mauritania and Morocco.

* Abdillahi Suldaan Mohammed Timacade ( 1920 – 1973 ) – prominent Somali poet known for his nationalist poems such as Kana siib Kana Saar.

In the 1973 " bloodless " coup, King Zahir Shah was deposed and Mohammed Daoud Khan became the country's president.

* On 2 December 1973, PC Mohammed Sanusi Bin Siraj, 26, was refueling his police van at the Paya Lebar Police Station when he spotted a police mini-bus rolling down a slope.